San Diego College Baseball : SDSU Salvages Split With Brigham Young

The San Diego State University baseball team narrowly avoided being swept in a doubleheader Friday at Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah.

After losing the opener, 9-7, the Aztecs held on to beat the Cougars, 14-13, for their first Western Athletic Conference victory.

In the first game, BYU (5-1, 24-9-2) was led by solo homers by Gary Cooper, David Willes, Dirk Thompson and Craig Angelos. SDSU (1-5 in conference, 21-15-1 overall) was paced by Tom LeVasseur, who went 3 for 3 with three RBIs, including a solo home run. Mark Beavers (4-3) was the winning pitcher for BYU. Scott Lawrence (4-3) took the loss for the Aztecs.

In the second game, SDSU led, 14-8, going into the bottom of the ninth, but the Cougars came back to score five runs, four on a grand slam by Thompson. Only a bases-loaded double play got the Aztecs out of the game. Mike Erb (6-3) got the win. Mark Newman (2-3) was the loser for BYU. SDSU's Bob Parry was 4 for 6 with a solo homer and three RBIs in the second game. On the day, Aztec shortstop Steve Montejano went 6 for 9, with five runs scored and three RBIs.

Pepperdine 7, USD 2--Pepperdine scored four unearned runs in the seventh inning and received a strong pitching performance from Mike Fetters to beat the Toreros in a West Coast Athletic Conference game at USD.

Scott Shockley's solo home run in the third inning gave Pepperdine (21-14-2) the early lead, but USD (19-17-2) evened the score, 1-1, in the bottom of the third.

The Toreros took a 2-1 lead in the fourth before the Waves capitalized on four USD errors and a hit in their four-run seventh. Pepperdine left fielder Steve Kirkpatrick's single drove in two more runs in the ninth.

First baseman Sean Baron led the USD hitters with two doubles in four at-bats.

Fetters struck out 12 en route to improving his record to 8-3. Loser Dan Newman fell to 4-6.

USIU had 19 hits in the first game. Jeff Ronas and Ron Green each had four hits and two RBIs. Ted Rivenark went 2 for 5 with two RBIs. Steve Hendricks also had a three-run homer for USIU. Rian Long (5-8) was the winning pitcher.

In the second game, USIU pitcher Mike Poteet (6-5) scattered eight hits to get the win. The Gulls had only five hits, the biggest being Bob Esquerra's two-run triple. USIU's Ian Kelly went 2 for 3 with an RBI.